Go check out Nerve.com’s “Five Albums You Should Be Listening To” where they asked us, The Crew, to share our two cents about five albums from the rap side of things that make for good listening. Just one more notch on our belt as we continue on our Pinky & The Brain-inspired march to take over the world via the Internet.

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08.09.11 at 7:42 pm

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I dig the list. Nothing I’m currently listening to is on it, so I see it as a chance to expand my harddrive. (Tho Section.80 had me for about a week or so… Might revisit that one at the gym.)

My Current Five Listens:

1) Voli…

Had to throw in Voli’s Glass Door Sampler. Can’t figure out why this dude hasn’t blown up yet. Rumor had him signing with RocNation for a while and he’s done some joints with J. Cole… Voli reminds me of a slightly less angry (equally passionate) Lamar Kendrick, but I think dude’s a better songwriter and he does a lot of his own beats.

Boogie Down Productions/KRS-One… KRS is obnoxious, swears he’s right about everything and might be the original “only haters are dumb enough to hate me” rapper, but this album just gets me. The balls on track after track to say “school’s in session” and pull it off.

Before Symbolic One was lacing Kanye, Jay, Strngefruit Project and nem he worked with Braille an underground MC outta Seattle/Portland era. They dropped this jewel back in 09. I had the instrumentals at one point but an HD crash snuffed my files. Worth the DL if you can find it.

I dig the production from Beat Rabbi on this joint. Kinda backpacker soul loops. DeepSpace5 is a crew of mostly Midwest MCs—Playdough, Theory Hazit being the most known cats. It’s a lotta battling and bars with a dose of back in the day nostalgia…